Welcome to Year 1

 

 

 

Teachers: Miss Bellerby and Mr Smith

 

Teaching Assistants:

Miss Dott and  Mrs Steel

 

 

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is: Up, Up and Away!

 

Key concepts being taught this term:

 

Literacy  

Reading

Decoding, blending and grapheme recognition.

Making predictions in response to text and relate these to personal experiences. 

Writing

Using capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.

Joining words and clauses using the conjunction 'and'.

Using cursive writing for lower case letters and forming capital letters.

Saying sentences out loud in preparation for writing.

Re-read own writing out loud.

 

Numeracy

Place Value

One more and one less within 20.

Number recognition to 100.

The Four Operations

Reinforcing addition and subtraction, 

Introduction of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Fractions

Finding a half of a set of objects and shapes. 

Geometry

Recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes.

Measurement

Time, learning the days of the week and months of the year.

 

Science 

Comparing the seasons, including what occurs during seasonal change.

Various properties of materials.

Computing

e-safety

Coding

Art

Drawing skills - line, tone and texture

Painting skills - colour mixing

Famous Artists - Hockney

Music

Listening to music to discuss changes in pulse and rhythm.

Sing melodies tunefully.

Technology

Creating sliders and levers to make moving rockets.

Geography

Talking about our environments as well as physical and human features.

History

Exploring the first moon landing.

P.E and Games

Dance (based on 'The Planets') and games.

R.E. and PSHCE

Myself and Christianity and Judaism.

 

P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure that NO earrings are worn on these days.
Homework is given out on Thursday and is due in on Tuesday.

          

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